Visible-card index file



Dec. 31, 1929. L, LOMEARDM] ,742,87

VSIBLE CARD INDEX FILE Original Filed Nov. 26, 1927 Enventot L @gli ZionZa/dz'ni Umor-megs Patented Dec. 31, 1929 VISIBLE-CARD INDEX FILE Original application filed November 26, 1927, Serial No. 235,957, and in italy April 19, 1927. Divided and this application led February 1, 1929. Serial No. 336,877.`

This invention is divided from my c- `pending application for patent Serial No. 235,957,

tiled November 26, 1927, and has for its object a very etlicient and inexpensive rforni of construction of card-holder embodying at its free edge: a pocket which includes in itseif the means for securing it to the card-holder body.

In the parent application a card-holder is claimed,said card-holder comprising a body, side extension at both ends of the free edge of said body, and a collar surrounding each of said side extensions, for the purpose of securing a transparent pocket around the free edge of the cardholder.

As compared with other constructions, the arrangement referred to has the advantage of providing a transparent pocket adapted to receive a record slip higher (or larger) than the depth of the pocket, said slip being inserted either endwise or from the open upper edge of the pocket. The operator is thus enabled easily to insert at will a card or the lilre in front or in rear of the record slip, i. e.

between the latter and the front fold of the poclet or the card-holder body, respectively,

`thus avoiding the drawback that the card or the like might uncontrollably be inserted by chance as would happen if the record slip was narrower than the deepness of the pocket. Y

Said purpose is `fulfilled by the side extensions in the body of the card-holder and the collars surrounding them being larger than the depth of the pocket. i

The same result may be obtained, instead of providing said side extensions in the body a of the card-holder and independent collars same as by independent collars.

surrounding them and the ends of the pocket, by providing a transparent pocket with cross extensions at both ends, and securing said cross extensions together and to the body of the cardholder. Y

`Passages are thus provided between the cross extensions of said pocket, and both fronts of the body of the cardholder, the

In the annexed drawings, Fig. l is a front view, F ig. 2 being a. cross-sectional view on line II-II of Fig. l, while Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of an embodiment of the invention.

According tothe invention, a poclret'for a card-holder l consists of a strip 9 of celluloid or the like (see Fig. 3) provided with cross extensions l() and 1l at both ends, which secured together and to the body l of the card-holder by stitches l2, thus providing endwise'opening passages for the insertion of record slips (not shown) both in front and at the rear of the card-holder.

The distance of the stitches 12 from the fold or bott-om of the pocket being greater than the substantial depth of the latter, record slips larger than the depth of the pocket may be used. `While the body l shown is provided with side extensions l', for the purpose or the invention said extensions may be i dispensed with, and the cross extensions ll of the pocket directly secured to the body l.

I claim:

' In visible card index les, a card-holder comprising a body, a transparent folded pocket member protecting a margin of said 

